Plans for Post-Baby Body.

Like I said last week, I feel back to 100% now, but I won't push myself. I think all the weight I'm going to loose from delivering is finished - about 25 ish pounds. I still have about 25 to go until I'm back at my pre-pregnancy weight, and then I have about another 15 to go until I reach my goal weight. Granted, I'm a mom now, and I'll see how I feel when I get down to my pre-pregnancy weight. I want to be strong and healthy, and a good role model for my daughter. I haven't been watching what I've been eating, I'm giving myself the month of June to kind of just figure things out, and July 1, I'll be back on My Fitness Pal, I believe. After my 6 week checkup on July 12, I'm hoping to pick up running again, and in the meantime I need to go for walking, probably daily, there's no reason not to. I just have to watch the summer heat. 

This weekend, I'm dragging Mr. Skinny out to go shopping for some clothes for me since I'm wider than I was pre-pregnancy. I tried on shorts that fit when I weighed more than I do now before I joined WW and I could barely get them up, so yep, definitely wider. That's fine, I'll take an excuse to go on a shopping trip and transform my wardrobe into a "mommy-friendly" wardrobe. Not a problem. I ordered a bunch of nursing tops and a bunch of skirts, I think I'm done with shorts, they don't flatter me and since I'm a mom, I don't have to fit in with the "normal" 23 year olds out there with super short shorts. 

Another goal for this weekend - a bathing suit. Sure, this might warrant some tears at Kohls, but I need to get a few tops that fit me and make me feel good. I do know that I have a daughter now and I have to be a good role model for her, even if she doesn't know exactly what I'm talking about, I don't want to teach her to have a negative body image. So I'll be working on that. I'm so thankful that my body birthed a baby without any medical intervention (and I'm not putting down any other births, but I got the birth I wanted, and I'm darn proud of that. Every mom should be proud of her birth)  that I think I have a whole new appreciation for it. I'm sure I'll still get annoyed with it at some point, but hopefully I won't verbalize that in front of my daughter. Hopefully each time I get annoyed I can look at my daughter and know that my body knew what to do in order to grow her, nourish her, and birth her.

What a real 3 week postpartum belly looks like!

I gained too much weight in pregnancy, about 45 pounds according to the doctor's scale, and about 52ish pounds according to my scale. Luckily, I had a healthy pregnancy and have a healthy daughter, but I didn't treat my body very well during those months. I didn't exercise or eat very well, and I know it's going to take a lot to get back into the groove that I was in last summer before I got pregnant. It's going to be hard and I know that, but I can do it. So hopefully this blog will get back on track with the road to skinny, although this it the third time to skinny, I can do it! It'll be a slow, hard journey, but I can do it.

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Being Comfortable in your Body.

Running. I'm starting to really love it. I enjoy my time alone, with, ya know, the iPhone and the music and the heart rate monitor, but alone. ;) I love focusing on what my body can do, and how strong my body is. I'm really starting to love my body, accepting my bigger thighs and hopefully, someday, child bearing hips. Accepting my cellulite and my dimpled thighs. It's who I am. Hopefully, I think, my body is shrinking. The scale says so anyways. There are days when I look in the mirror and really like what I see. Knowing that I am taking care of myself and making myself healthier is a wonderful feeling.

This past weekend wasn't as healthy as I would have liked, but a lot of it, I did the best with what I could. I went over my recommended calories both days, but I'm not gonna harp on it and bore you with what I ate. There was ice cream, burgers, not a ton of veggies and pasta. No big deal, moving on. It's a new start and I got up and went for a run this morning. My brother is at nerd camp, oh I mean engineering camp, for the week, so I'm running myself. It's kind of nice to not have to keep up with his pace, although I do miss having someone to talk to.

It was a do-over of Week 6, Day 1. With all the eh food I ate this weekend, I didn't want to have to stop halfway through my run, and I think it was a good plan. 2 miles completed.

Now I have some pictures. I want to be honest with my readers and I've never hid from telling anyone my weight, so now I have some progress pictures. Back in February, I bought some bikinis, hoping that they would motivate me to loose my weight so I could wear them this summer. Well they've been sitting in my closet since I bought them. I had them in the back of my mind, but I'm just so slow at loosing, I don't know that I can wear them this summer. Since I moved back home, though, and really got going on my weight loss, I'm a little more confident.

I haven't taken progress pictures regularly, but if Leah can put herself out there, I can too!

The following 2 pictures are from the beginning of December, roughly 10 pounds ago.

And these 2 are from this morning.

I think a little bit of the love handles/muffing top went away, but other than that, I don't thing the 10 pounds did a whole lot. I'm going to keep going though. And hopefully I'll take some more progress pictures. I'm almost confident to wear a bathing suit. Probably not a bikini, but I'm getting more comfortable in my skin every day!

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Are you comfortable in your skin? How did you get there, or why aren't you?